The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia – District of Northcote Victoria has issued the following announcement regarding this week’s blessing service at St Basil’s Homes. The announcement reads: Dear friends, By the Grace of God, the Archiepiscopal Vicar for the District of Northcote, the Very Reverend Evmenios Vasilopoulos, conducted a blessing service this week at St…

In preparation to once again meet his flock in the Metropolis of Burundi and Rwanda, His Eminence Metropolitan Innocentios Byakatonda will lead the divine liturgy on this Sunday of the commemoration of Luke the Evangelist (October 18, 2020) at St. Nicholas Cathedral Namungoona. It should be remembered that the Metropolitan has been held in Uganda…

Ionian Village, the Archdiocese’s summer camp site in the northwestern Peloponnese, sustained damage on Monday, October 13, 2020. A tornado ripped through the facility, causing most significant damage to the cafeteria (“Trap”) and the pool. Several trees behind the cabins were uprooted and launched hundreds of feet. No one was on site during the tornado,…

In the framework of the last two appeals launched by the Middle East Council of Churches consequently to the Beirut Blast, the Diakonia department’s team provided a new batch of relief supplies to presidents in the member church to be distributed to the most vulnerable and damaged families in the Eastern Orthodox, Orthodox, Evangelical and…

During a working visit to the Republic of Turkey, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his wife Olena took part in a prayer service for Ukraine and visited the Patriarchal Church of St. George. After that, the Head of State and the First Lady met with His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew. The Patriarch thanked for…

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The Serbian Orthodox Church’s Metropolitanate of Australia and New Zealand is set to open its first parish school, the St.Sava College in the west Sydney suburb of Varroville. The school is expected to open in January 2021.

The deputy head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external Church relations, Vakhtang Kipsidze, reiterated the Church’s opposition to the concept of surrogate mothers and the legal notion of surrogacy. He stated that “…Speaking as a citizen of Russia, I do not want the country in which I live become a field for testing of…